Workers Press no. 18

As 120,000 miners challenge the N.C.B: Coal strike spreads

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TL

By John Spencer MORE THAN half the collieries in Britain were on strike yesterday in defiance of the union leadership and the National Coal Board.

Yorkshire's 75 pits were solidly out, joined by 24 pits in South Wales, ten in Derbyshire, two in Notting- hamshire, one in Kent and a number of large pits in Scotland. as the Altogether more than 130 of the 306 collieries in Britain were on strike. More than 200 Yorkshire miners on Monday suc- dustmen ceeded in calling out two of Nottingham's pits : largest Bevercotes and Thoresby. Bevercotes, an £18 million show- piece pit, is the most modern in England.

return the union leadership, which has recommended Hostiity to acceptance of the wages oner in return tor turtne negotiations' on the question of surfacemen's hours, is growing rapidly. By Peter Read miners Representatives of 17,000 (erhushire Mondau NUM leadership AS MORE London dust- passed confidence in the of no and demanded their resignations men return to work this Leaders of the South Yorkshire branches have alco called week, the councils are for the

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president Sir Sidney Ford and general secretary Lawrence Daly taking the opportunity to came under heavy fire try and push through pro- Panoramay Monday night on the BBC's ductivity deals and redun-

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dancy. He and NCB chairman Lord Ri Seriken faced hostile agd to donge proceeded - ho

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grill both for 20 minutes.

deals are shown by the pro- the Ealing posals put men last Friday.

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Procedure The work fo force would be to and Daly pleaded with the miner enaniy Alad-up must in- constitutional

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still procedure. explaining that this ing to orf ciad tea pilstry woue mea execuuive comendation gome to a dele- Inrouen zate conferenc and then?

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M- Dave regiona! avand. allot of 300,000 member Genera Atomic Energy Authority otheer ot the and But as striker put it : Municina! Warkers Union. ret a one 'For far tole hes lage Final dint basic

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one our unlon : government agrees, was under he eal wanld We've wanted be 428. announcec years on this hours question Konanı and we don't intend waiting sub cit come tic at. another two days.' 'Presumption' union Thy un ere equally unmoved scheme, that said atterwards that hall spokesman сте. вб." will amount to some anarch action Lils was cratsme:

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and certainly based on a 'presumption' thai won't anlarcu, and general workers with pro payT here arerules of the game off in this the sonus woule de elevated Cast nortona rices tor women and hv the increase in the basıc younger workers. wage. and are Dreaki ? Basic pav of craftsmen and ules" he said Donus asO con The 's will miners' action, he general workers tus be citiona n n c actin. brought and claimed, would make When the work force £15 Is. 6d. a week. difference to the NCB. exceD andi® would lose belng cut, this can only mean more work for fewer men. loses get an extra l0s. a week on their special rate, bringing it pits ne calnei is tryna to nili had heard this face to get the to 50s. The miners on a trendly kind of talk before. deal accepted. Shitt allowances and grade would support a coid 'We been atae ad an differentials for general work- call the ers will also be raised. brainwashed with negotiating until we've talk ot cosure municipal manual worker last onr hack one at les Local union branch officer: itnaht had unti Fertilizer are reported to now!' enunusias- tie anot te atae i ce Said another: 'We've always councils. it's been in a position where A Natonann dt Public profits up either take it or leave it. Well, Employees secretary, hranah. we're not taking it any more.

con ell has so far, said tehy said 'the senerous

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Trapped com pared lih 87.0 ,0 B Reject deal profit £7,096,000, If anyone retece is leninga direnste be This type of deal Robens himself, year before. mitted: speed-up and reaundancy bard pas simpry rot on the final e connd of is toer ce z.

company The wage increases naid for Board return

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their imniementation are soon the interest on the monev that whi ed suana nt Incomes PrOTE it has nortowed. Behind the so-called gener- fertilizer gorieltlra were might feel for Wanle the down, the company said, bul miners on low wages, this wa more profit than last year had po cic capacify: oncern of the Board in it the expense of from drugs and indus- trial chemicals. This statement, described by one of the miners on the Young Socialists Ever since 1947, Coal Board

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in the interess lenaers who com-

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owners pensation Davments minere draw a nattanei wages. During all these exchanges.

Saturday, Nov. 29 cut a sorry left-talker Daly e a e ne to con- Canning Town Public Hall cedure' doors open 12 noon Same line Can you sew? knit? paint?

make somethino for nur Razaar?

But every miner knows from give something towards our bazaar ?

that bitter experienct Have you a tin of grocery? jumble?

in the cialln are LOrtUOus Help us make this the best bazaar ever held !

necomaune orocecure tey are Help us raise the money for our daily paper— lost to sight for vears at a time

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miners have heard

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FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 18 • WEDNESDAY, O

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LEwI Union inaction behind take los oDDore tunity of expressing my pheroeth tubemen's the Newsettes. successor behalf any genome hose he re genuine heht strike cent Jones-Scanlon charade at The new daily has come at conference history mportan that. of the MOST London Tube lines the immediate indus- in the anu 1,20 trial struggles is indispensable were hit on Monday when past trayal rail to all militants for guidance in guards from both Strike and the rise a voided fine ism the detence of wales and Con- unions struck in support of ditions. a new leadership, their demand for of the Tuture. Then Primaril course mileage pay. Press personined ne H Workers' daily musi extended the Cen- paper, and this is so because throughout the working class No trains ranon we have seen narticulart tral, the or the reson, i a Piccadi cree since the imnlamantation lines and Northern, Rakerloc the f the Labour government's and District services were these policies, politics are part and unionism support their paper. The Vistoria which operates without guards, was Lave learned loe many unaffected. Ronald Brown, Road traffic was jammed in no use depending on our Edinburgh Works Scotland central Tandor "leaders. Ine Yard so-called left Enc variety. commotee motorists to leave work early. the nennie who will nut The strike was defiance union's thair by joint meeting of (Locomotive last Wednesday and Engineers branches Railwaymen's supported Union elates intend to stake one their day each week until demands for equal mileade bonus with motormen —Union chief (drivers) are met Bakers want Smouldering

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lightning strikes £20 basic This issue r. the been which have disrupted pro- smouldering under. grammes and upset produc- striker told the Workers Press ycals. unt tion schedules at the BRO on

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Merseyside Mr Tom Monday: are to continue. bakers continuing "Tremendous frustration's Rhys, general secretary of strike demanding a £20 basic heen building un because the Association of Broadcasting Tale executives hoth unions on Monday. Staffs, warned have done nothing ahont Monday night refused "Union cat to Fe this', he said. he strikes have were recently in- Christmas the Bakers' thrown the • or or on gives programme schedule into dis-

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WOrK vass meennes 6s. he held to werE expected as compared to ABS has wednesdav review relused 152 oter offer the situation. motormen accept amounts receivi and reach claim that their Bakers Can sometimes

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as much as 15s a dav. for a l0 per cent rise. bein been ed a 130 4d wage the employers, but "Her hi the men threw it out.

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are also They demanding ime-and-a-halt for overtim 20 hours in some cases—in-

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stead of a fall-back They also want full pay for 18-year-olds. still Delivery men were Thursday, October 30 working nanagement and staff at som baking bread. irms were Help is urgently needed in the YOUNG SOCIALISTS' campaign for candidate

COVENTRY

FRANK WILLIS

'Crisis in the motor Please contact Central Committee Rooms industry' Wednesday, October 22, 5a Milton Road, Swindon 7.30 p.m. phone: Swindon 20570 Coventry tras "he Rrugess The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

ESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1969

PRICE Bd. By our Industrial reporter STRIKING carworkers from factories Merseyside meet tomorrow after a week attempts employers and union officials to break their resistance. Vauxhall's Ellesmere

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Port Dant tuesday comany invited mem- bers, over the heads of thei meetings stewards, to return

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endorsed by local officials who had earlier structions plant's Dress operalors But despite more than eight Speaker: Frank Willis hours on- eve discussions Young Socialists candidate raded Unior headquarters even- in the parliamentary the came the employers by-election Hunt's Cross, strikers. Thursday, October 23

DEADLOCK

8 p.m. Employers and union lead- Pinehurst Common Room ers mei separate v. met to. Wednesday, October 29 cether. met over a cold pork 8 p.m. dinne the talke chill anded in danc Swindon Town Hall get Tourhole mana to 5,000 engineers • back to work heels of the

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onerators Wednesday, October 22 reSAEF divisional organizer 8 p.m. Norman MacDonald Ship Inn member. were DeT to work on return the invitation of the comnany

WILLESDEN

laid Press operators were weeks their Thursday, October 23, dispute the setting of 8 p.m. of the Hall Trades and Hich Road. N.W.10. agains and proposals. Asked by the Workers' Prees whether the nress chor men would now lain the atte dispute. secre

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district tary Mr Clifford Keech would only that: being made that on while Union Vehicle are still laid off after members becoming not only six weeks increasingl WEST GERMANY'S new Chancellor, Willy Brandt, determine. hant the comnany's new deal!

has already run into trouble in forming his coalition but and angry more more with alleged discrimination at cabinet with the liberal Free Democrats.

the d dolesc.or The provisional Feather's appoint- attempts to the Standard ment of Dr Hans Leussink bringin into cabinet Minister for Scientific preference Hele Research is being criticised party menDers discussions Like social-democratic simlal with by members Brandt's execuave cougerman governmento Krandt'c Hearsey own Party, the Social V211X. the very serve capitalism to hall's. Democrats. end.

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is not a mem. ber of any political party and does not sit in the Bundestag. thee West German parliament. however, the adviser and it is this, Krupp concern, ogether with Leussink's isola.

tion trom the vounger genera.

finn coral-democratic voters, that has triggered protests his appointment. Financed Nazis Krupp, 1t chand no the bered, was iggest financers and benefactors Nazi the regime emnlovina and -act Huranan before 1970. Even officially takes office, Br Brandt is linking up openly big men y interests, extent Brewery

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allocation AS at Luton's Full subscription Two edition: Whitbread (For any two days (Posted dally) their over allocation OR 210 a veal vou select work on Monday, all transport months worter. Ci for thrao months Watney Mann Northampton I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for hrewert came out nuar The Nothamnton. delind porth broom him. ing contractors Sa days without first offer Name chance workers The drivers are not to meet again until Sunday. Address week-old anded strike oftar tha with sackings if there was no Post to: Circulation Organizer, Workare' Proce 186a return to work. Clapham Hiah Street. London, SW4.

(Tel: 01-720-2000) The dispute arose over Spirits as well as beer. wine and

As 120,000 miners challenge the N.C.B: Coal strike spreads

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

WEDNESDAY, O

NUMBER 18

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

By John Spencer MORE THAN half the collieries in Britain were on

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strike yesterday in defiance of the union leadership and the National Coal Board.

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Yorkshire's 75 pits were solidly out, joined by 24 pits in South Wales, ten in Derbyshire, two in Notting- hamshire, one in Kent and a number of large pits in Scotland. as the Altogether more than 130 of the 306 collieries in Britain were on strike. More than 200 Yorkshire miners on Monday suc- dustmen eeded in eded in and thor y of Nottingham's pits : piece pit, is the most modern in England.

Hostility to the union leaders biper which eturne cor furthe return wol surfacemen se tour, is growier tions' By Peter Read E a rentativos of no con Densin the NUM leadeshi AS MORE London dust- and demanded their resignations.

men return to work this Lee tes odion St president Sir Saey ord and week, the •counels are taking the opportunity to DoM came e under the bis try and push througn pro- ductivity deals and redun-

PAY RISE

dancy. Union

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deals are shown ov the pro- put to the Ealing inaction men last Friday. Procedure

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1 ne behind drastic to go pleade ch the minens take tais must arance of set the de eu ted

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that thi tubemen's the Workers a5The Newsettsuccessor the worki salle conference ADURT Energy

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strike em Lones Paler workers are to "For far Pr was 1OST Londo the deal wou were hit n Monda and the ris Monday. from guarus continued subject to unions suruck in support o. 'Presumption' tneir aemana : a politica ased on a pre mileage Day creases tne Le increased be tele basid Bakerloo for women anc reasons, I urze all ditional bon sob re-aloca tion which support their paper. was Ronald Brown being Road traffic was jammed in Edinburgh Works pind or al betore heard thit.

Com sitet Mancestrike art wint also be reised London basin ic about the atitude of the Fertilizer now!' aid another: We've alway cou National Union of Public n ender strik the ther take it or leave it. We prolits up we're not taking it any more.

mileage vit equal Mr motormen (drivers) are met —Union chief FISONS, fiant, fertilizer Bakers want Trapped Smouldering Reject deal

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surikes Twich E1,011090 0be £20 basic nobiderissuender been wnien nave aisruptea pro grammes and upset proauc- i the wo orkers Prest Board au icmory rot retume tion schedules at the bou final dividend of 67 per cent THOUSAND Merseyside continue, are to Mr lom es demandontia izo basic general secretary agricultura Peripers of Broadcasting might feel company Monday about miners more protit public capacity expense of thrown trial chemicals ne schedule into dis- the ABS th has retused a 1 BC and is ighting Young Socialists amicints motormen as much as for a 10 per cent rise. olicy sas operated e ard

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entirely the men threw it out. tenders

SWINDON

demanding e veres in

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stead of a fall-back rate.

BY-ELECTION

They also want full pay for 18-year-olds offer through Canning Town Public Hall pro Help is urgently needed in the YOUNG 12 noon doors open Same line SOCIALISTS' campaign for candidate can vou sew• Kale palate

NOVENTREY

make something for our bazaar.

But every miner know foce

FRANK WILLIS

Crisis in the motor give sometning towaros our bazaar d Please Have vou a tin of grocerv? jumble?

contact Central Committee Rooms industry Wednesday, October 22, Help us make this the best bazaar ever held!

Help us raise the money for our daily paper— Ja Milton koad, swindon 1.30 p.m. phone: Swindon 20570

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE Bd.

IESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1969

By our industrial reporter STRIKING carworkers from factories two Merseyside meet tomorrow after a week by employers alenDs and union officials to break their resistance POtt Vauxhall's Ellesmere plant Tuesday,

A.T.U.A.

invited

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mem- pal spet digm. company bers. over heads of theil une meetings sni bes she stewaros. reTurn to

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endorsed bv local ins wac bnnn cas wą conveyed return-to-work structions from their national the plant's 400 Speaker : Frank Willis more than .eight hours Young Socialists candidate Lop-level uiscussion 1 race consies. in the parliamentary headquarters Une sant even In°. emolovers are reTus by-election in g settle the demands the standard-Triumph, Hunt's Cross, strikers. Thursday, October 23 8 p.m.

DEADLOCK

Employers and union lead- Pinehurst Common Room separately, 'ome HIC l Wednesday, October 29 gether, met over porl 8 p.m. alnnel DU laiks ended in deadlock STIli Swindon Town Hall Vauxhas move ro get its 5,000 engineere hack to work

CASTLEFORD

came cince on the hees of tha decision to Wednesday, October 22 EF divisional organizer Mi 8 p.m. Norman MacDonald the Ship Inn members were 'per- mitted work the invitation of the company?.

return

WILLESDEN

Press operatore were off four Thursday, October 23, tor weers their over setting disnite „ the 8 p.m. machines. But of the engineers Trades Labour Hall anci rhame after working wwon nanw. and productivity Pres whoie the Workers' Press shop press join the latter men woud now district

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dispute secre. tarv Mr Clifford Keech would comment onlu that " 'Attempts are being made settle that National 2 000 Builders are still laid off after becoming only increasingly determined WEST GERMANY'S new Chancellor, Willy Brandt, fight the company's new deal, has already run into trouble in forming his coalition out more anc more anart with allered cison-ion cabinet with the liberal Free Democrats.

the dolec provisional appoint- The Victor Mr Haather, ment of Dr Hans man attamnte to dot tha Ctondord bringing Krupp into caInE Shinet Triumph strikers back to work Minister in reference for Scientific have been conducted in paral- o cidercratic Research is being criticised with councilmay aux- Brandt's memnerc Brandt's Arthur covernments about Social own Party, the serve cantalsm Tne

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Democrats. And. Dr Leusink is not a mem- her of anv nolitical marty and does not cit in the Bundestag.

the V West German Darliament. is, however, scientific adviser mammoth ›gether tion from the vounger genera social-democratic TIOn off voters. that triggered against tha mentasto appointment. Financed Nazis Krupp, it ohe d be renee- bered, - tors st financerzi benefactors recre endovd and Soviet Fast huronean slave labour. officially hafora ha Auen takes ofice. Brandt is linking up openly with big monopoly interests, to the Brewery

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Tatan'a osted dally) For any two days brewery ended their strike over allocation OR you select) work on Monday, all the 150 £2 10s. for three Northampton Watney ft for three months monthe Mann I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for came over Out he Northamnton man nue ctrina nuer tha haawory hir.

ing autoido contractors Saturdays without first offer- Name own workers the of overtime aain unti Sunda not to meet Address week-old unofficial strike in tuton ended atter drivarc tha WArA thrantonad with sackings if there was no Post to: Circulation Organizer, Workers' Press, 400 return to work. Clapham High Street, London, SW4, (Tel: 01-720-2000) dispute Tho arose

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draymen carring wine and spirits as well as beer.

PAGE TWO

THE POLITICAL com- mentators of the bour- geois press were not able to analyse the develop- ments at the recent Tory conference in a convinc- ing way. They attempted to explain the 'restiveness' of the con- ference as doubts over a Tory victory at the next general election. This is not surprising, for the surface appearance of politics-the only reality for the commentators-is now being disrupted by much deeper class forces. Unacknowledged in any of the debates, but essentially determining the changes seen at Brighton, is the movement of the European working class into huge struggles, and re- cession and the deterioration of the world monetary system.

The main issue underlying the conference was the need of the political representatives of the ruling class to begin to take and defeat the working on class. Naturally some delegates conscious than were more others of this. But the un- precedented number of issues to the votesomething taken normally avoided at Tory con- ferences- certainly reflects the divisions in the party over how to take on the working class.

Difficult The employers must try to make the working class pay for the coming recession.

But the determined strikes for wages and lay-off pay make this very difficult.

The main development at the conference was the con- siderable support for Powell- ism. Sections of the employers are looking to him for help.

Hence 'The Times' described him in one debate as a 'con- fident and dominating figure'.

Powell's actions at the con- ference are in themselves sig- nificant. Alternative He did not speak at the con- ference in the immigration or Common Market debates. This is surprising as these are issues on which he concentrates. In- stead he gave well reported

'REPRESENTING THE

UNION'

No. 2 Televised on BBC-1 on Sunday, October 12 at 12.30 p.m.

THE SECOND

pro- gramme of Represent- ing the Union', the BBC series designed to sell productivity bargaining to shop stewards, con- centrated on 'communi- cations'. Three senior shop stewards from an Alcan factory in the Midlands were shown, nego- - a per tiating with management over a productivity agreement.

'We are offering a 4.2 per cent increase and one day extra holiday in 1969 and you've got to work the pro- ductivity arrangements" says the management. 'No deal. We want 5 per cent and two days extra, say the stewards. The implication being that it is simply a question of 'how much' and not of the strings involved. Common ground How did the shop stewards get this position? The Transport and General Workers' Union steward re-.

marks: "They sold it to us on the understanding that they were going to look at everybody, management and unions. was then we started getting together because we had some common ground to discuss.'

And later in the programme -'What really sold this to us was that works' management was to be looked at and re- organized.' If, indeed, this was the basis of their acceptance, then it was made on a false as- sumption. Certainly, the con- sultants examine the opera- tion of managment as well as workers and this may even re- sult in some managers being moved out, but this examina- tion is on an entirely different Heath (top left) tried to forestall splits in controversial issues of Rhodesia, immig Salisbury against the imprisonment of n speeches at evening meetings of local Tory associations.

Powell is not interested in 'debate' with the Heath leader- ship. He is putting himself for- ward as the alternative to Heath which at least some of the employers want. He was speaking to a wider basis from that of the manual workers. To management consul- tants, an inefficient manager is one who does not keep the workers fully occupied all the time, who does not ensure that materials and work are always available. Another vital difference is that while productivity deals always result in fewer workers on the job, they often add to the numbers of management, usually with the setting up of nego- - a permanent work-study de- partment. Row faster To get comfort out of this might be regarded situation as equivalent to slaves in a galley ship, who, when Or- dered to row faster, find con- solation in the fact that at least the inefficient overseer has been removed and placed with one that whips twice as hard and twice as often. In this particular pro- gramme little reference was made the productivity to changes involved. It was men- tioned that fitters' mates were to be redeployed and that tea breaks were to be cut. The T&GWU steward remarked: When the original product- ivity deal came in they voted me out, because of the fear of this thing. People were going to have to change their jobs and all the rest of it.' In a three-way discussion in the second half of the pro- gramme, between a member of the management, a TUC representative, and the three stewards concerned, emphasis was placed on the senior shop stewards' discussince famin formal themselves rather than the setting up of a formal joint This is how the managements stewards' committee. prefer it. On the one hand they harp on about 'good communica- tions', meaning that the senior

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by laying down the party line orestall splits in the conference immigration hanging. African women demonstrating in nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo, before UDI.

audience: to the big mono. ence polists Cand husinessmen who He said that the Labour offered him funds to and Tory policies were 'much make a bid for the party lead- of a muchness'. ership. In other words, Heath's pro- gramme is similar to Wilson's This came out quite clearly and is therefore not what the his a local statement in In employers want. Tory association meeting in Portsmouth during the confer- Heath certainly felt the three senior Alcan shop stewards who took pi contrary are setting out to discipline workers on the em- the rank and file; on the other ployers' behalf, they laturall hand, they ee no objection to discussin can always think up reasons why contact be- what at one time would have tween all members of all sec- regarded been as private tions, or even between all union matters in front of an stewards is not necessary.

employer, not to mention the viewers. mmin Tup or the sitation Union matters summing-up of the Also in the programme was: ertain remarks were passe "The problem-solving between the stewards and the the conflict situation are just

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on methods of reconciling differ- inner union matters ent interests that arise out of This sort of discussion was proposal: entirely in order by management which has de apparently with the TUC representative.

objectives and the means and methods of achiev.

As these people see no con- ing them.' flict between themselves and the employers, but on the 'Communications' is the

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demonstration in London in support of pressure from the right. He knew that there were to be divisions at Brighton. 'Union reforms' The night before the con- ference opened, he tried to

BY BERNARD

FRANKS

ds who took part in the BBC programme, technique of talking-in pro- ductivity deals. Its first aim is to involve a section of shop stewards in the way shown in this programme. They in turn sell the scheme to their mem- bers on the factory floor.

Why do some shop stew- ards fall for these schemes?

Work-study In the programme the stew- ard from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry workers: 'When we went to negoti- ate our agreement I sent all my information and a copy of the productivity deal to the executive and they said "It's up to your members"? The union leaderships en Wednesday, October 22, 1969 ing class through 'participa- Gaulle, much Has cont If the French working class removed Gaulle wnen large Haud battery down how unions i will Mr Heath cope with the 10h! nearn is _not strong position and the working class under revolutionary leadership can and will defeat him. A lory government at the next general election is not in- Heath's policies failed to carry through Wilson® but LICe because of the resistance of the labou movement. But even the big stick of unempioyment is a two-edged weadon. Unemployment nOW radicalizing factor as the work- undefeated 1n8 class emerges from the boom period. The Tories remain undecided about their road forward.

The swing to Ine Brighton votes came the against the leadership on the issues immigration and hanging. In the kriday race relations the platform's resolu- denate tion was that the party's policy likely to be Immigrants This policy is that entry immigrants into Britain should only interest and then allowed only limited period for specific job. Heath 'We shall make tunds availabl available to assist immierants to return Ine country or omen'. But this was not enough. In the debate loud applause who speakers was caven called for a total ban and fol providune emo ovment Toe immigrant's own country than unemployment rather d above: al benefit in this country'.

When the debate closed. the official line was only carried by 1,349 votes to 954. Tory 'shadow", hit out at this the law and order debate forestall splits bv laving dowr saw the same forces at work.

year's "crippling' strikes.

the party line the three main controversial issues of Heath was perhaps con- The emplovers were promised immigration, hanging and cerned ng enh thrash 'em that maior trade union reform Rhodesia. and hang image of the would be a first party. Wednesday's trade union de- a Tory government. bate showed what the Tories Hor the otheia motion lett were • propose Ine main nronosals for the unions. hanging to be a matter of in- to lay down the statutory right dividual Tory Mr Robert Carr, Mrs Castle's of an not MPs. for was minimum periods of notice pushed through to 'particularly Cilalzes lo arreencils, the restoration of capi greater protection to une man ta vote of ant to 58er tal punishment who strikes comnared with the man who takes wildcat action' mood that Powels his sumport in they this brings hese proposals mean eftect: laws against the closed party What shop; and pro- SUDDOrt Droductivity Powell is eat albro- measures and ether leave the decision the members, civil action for liable market tree operauon knowing that damages. forces is a return to the 1930s long-term This would ployers all that they tant.

He wants the working class em - effects the members usually unemplovment and crushed ov accept. alternauve y Ines But the policies have to be divided by racialism. acceptance open v encourage given a window-dressing. ot the deai and send the ctew.

ards and management on their The Tories propose elected Leadership own work-study appreciation vorks' councils which will br given the information usually courses. The fight for leadership in shareholders along giver advance the working class is the de- in the short term come ad.

notice cisive question. vances in wages may occur in (i.e. ployment chances Reformism and class collab- from as productivity As oration can ofter no alternanve not, these to the Tories. take place because Similar strength of tne workers , de Gules ate mery These very involved nas rorced un the leadershin similar only force which can put an introduction to buy over the French work- end to Toryism for ever. jobs down. Where workers declare "satisfied'. Themse ves usually because they have dis- torted the scheme in this way.

the One short remark steward revars the der pro

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ramme wages what- improve ever scheme is brought in He commented a the TeC man: always brought up to believe that the deal, helps all the ther pest him Who the hect Pie or ne theres Why the employers intend to replace plece-work with shouldn't and get Measured Day Work. She best deal possible At hastily changed. this subject was changed. schemes are entire v a reflec- By Alan Thornett of the crisis of Rritich tion capitalism, whatever the short-term results PRICE 3d. The long-term aims of the employers and Published by All Trades Unions Alliance, the full implemen- class and 21 Strawberry Path, Oxford.

most merciless methods of exploitation. programmatic document of the world this is the basic The death agony of movement founded by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.

Marxists had found it necessary to 1938 the revolutionary capitalism. Iny the foundations of the Fourth International in order restore working-class leadership after the defeats prepared by and the the Stalinist bureaucracy in control of the Third (Communist) German Revolution international. tasks of the 1923, of the Coneral Strike in 1926. British and or the Chinese Revolution in 1927, followed by Hitler's victory over 4th Intervational 1933, finally ruled out the The German working call perspective of transforming the Communist Intemanona 60 pages, 1;- by internal opposition.

Wednesday, October 22, 1969 9.15 Schools. 12.25-12.55 a.m. p.m. Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye. 12.55 Ble Carech Chi Fynd? 1.30 Watch With Mother. 1.45-1.53 News and Weather. 2.05-2.50 3.45-4.15 Representing Schools. The Union. 4.20 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Zokko! 5.15 5.44 Babar. 5.50 Wild World. National News and Weather.

6.00 London-Nationwide. 6.45 The Newcomers. 7.10 The Laugh Parade. Main News and 8.45 The Weather. 9.00 A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party. 9.10 The Wednesday Play: 'Close the Coalhouse Door'. 10.30 24 Hours. 11.05 Free For All. 11.35 Weatherman. All regions as BBC-1 except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglla: 6.00- 6.45 p.m. Midlands Today, Look East, Weather, Nation- wide. 11.37 News Summary, Weather. Northern England: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Look North, Weather, Nation- wide. 11.37 News Headlines, Weather. Wales: 10.25-10.45 a.m. Dysgu Cymraeg. 6.00-6.45 p.m. Wales Today, Nationwide. 6.45-7.10 Heddiw. 11.05-11.35 World Cup Soccer. Scotland: 2.30-2.50 p.m. Modern Studies. 6.00-6.45 p.m. Report- ing Scotland 9.10-10.30 Asso- ciation Football: West Germany v. Scotland. 11.05-11.20 Made In Britain. 11.20 Epilogue, News Headlines, Scottish Weather. Northern Ireland: 10.25-10.45 a.m.

For Schools. 6.00-6.45 p.m. Scene Around Six, Nationwide, Weather. 7.10-8.45 World Cup Association Football: Russia v.

Northern Ireland. 11.37 Northern Ireland Headlines, New s Weather. | West: 6.00-6.45 p.m. South and Today, Points West, South Spotlight South-West, Weather, Nationwide. 11.37 News Head- lines, Weather. 11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. Expecting A Baby.

7.30 Newsroom, Weather. 8.00 Man Alive. 8.50 The Garden of the Three Glens. 9.00 A Party Polltical Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party. 9.10 Rowan and Martin. 10.00 Know Your Onions. 10.20 Peter Sarstedt. 10.50 News Summary, Weather.

10.55 Line-Up. Tham 11.00 a.m.-2.55 p.m. Schools. 3.10 Racing From Sandown Park.

4.07 Medicine In Question. 4.15 News Headlines. 4.17 The Tingha Tucker Club. 4.30 Cross- and 4.55 The Sooty Show. roads. 5.20 Sexton Blake. 5.50 News From ITN. 6.03 Today. 6.35 The Saint. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 It Takes A Thief. 9.00 Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party.

9.10 Speclal Branch. 10.10 News. 10.40 Football. 11.35 Professional Wrestling.

12.15 a.m. The Papers. 12.30 Medicine In Question.

orkshir 11.00 a.m. Schools. 2.55 p.m. Racing From Sandown. 4.15 News Headlines. 4.17 Paulus. 4.30 Survival. 4.55 The Sooty Show. 5.20 Sexton Blake. 5.50 News. 6.00 Calendar, Weather. 6.30 Hogan's Heroes. 7.00 Jokers Wild.

7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 The Saint. 9.00 Party Political Broad- cast. 9.10 Special Branch. 10.10 News, Weather. 10.40 Inter- national Football. 11.35 Profes- sional Wrestling. 12.05 a.m. Late Weather. 11.00-11.57 a.m. Schools. 1.40 Racing p.m. Schools. 2.55-3.40, From Sandown Park. 4.01 Once Upon A Time. 4.13 Westward News Headlines. 4.15 Open House. 4.41 The Gus Honeybun Show. 4.55 The Sooty Show. 5.20 Captain Sexton Blake and Nemisis. 5.50 National News. 6.00 Westward Diary. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 Treasure Hunt. 7.30 Corona- tion Street. 8.00 The Saint. 9.00 Liberal Party Political Broadcast.

9.10 Special Branch. 10.10 National News. 10.40 World Cup Football. 11.35 Professional Wrest- ling. 12.05 a.m. Faith For Life. 12.11 Weather. 10.58 a.m. Schools. 2.55 p.m. Racing From Sandown Park. 4.05 Katie Stewart Cooks. 4.30 Anglia THE DAUNTING thing Newsroom 4.35 The Romper about going to any West Room. 4.55 The Sooty Show. 5.20 End theatre is that it is Sexton Blake and Captain Nemisis. 5.50 News. 6.00 About unequivocally middle- 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Anglia. Survival. 7.30 Coronation Street.

class territory. 8.00 The Avengers. 9.00 Liberal The faces in the audience, Party Political Broadcast. 9.10 News, the styles of clothing, the Special Branch. 10.10 Weather. 10.45 International Foot- gossip in the aisles, the well- ball. 11.40 Professional Wrestling.

bred thuggery in the bars, 12.05 a.m. Reflection. where overworked attendants ladle out gins and tonics, the programmes-all rustle of these announce an enclave of 11.00 a.m. Schools. 2.55-3.40 p.m.

bourgeois supremacy. Racing. North News- East There is an atmosphere of 4.11 News Headlines. 4.13 room. of 4.30 Food collusion, sense ritual Torchy. Freud On 4.53 North East Newsroom. 4.55 where class identities are re- The Sooty Show. 5.20 Sexton inforced in a reverent if often 5.50 News. Blake. 6.00 Today At for the bewildered respect Six. 6.30 Police Call. 6.35 Castle of the tombstones culture, Haven. 7.00 The Legend Of Jesse masterpieces of the past, or Coronation 7.30 Street. James kind of interested re- with 8.00 The 9.00 Party Saint. work from gard for the latest Political Broadcast 9.10 behalf of the pen of either an author Party. Special the Loeral Branch. 10.10 News. 10.40 World who shares their world view Cup Football. 11.35 Professional or provides them with a thera- Wrestling. 12.05 News peutic and often Late masochistic 12.12, The Case of the Extra. between dinner and tremor Talking Books. bed. There is a sense of modish ceremony, inpenetrability, of a preoccupation with form for form's sake in these iso- lated pockets from some other era. 1.40 Schools. 2.55 Racing p.m. so often And on the stage From Sandown Park. 4.00 Border News Headlines. 4.02 House- the charade is echoed by the modulated party. 4.15 Castle Haven. 4.40 actors, whose Hubble Bubble. 4.55 The Sooty voices, caressed from the belly, Show. 5.20 Sexton Blake. 5.50 intone such resonant melodies National News. 6.00 Border News from the that never issue and Lookaround. 6.35 Crossroads.

tongue of any living man.

7.00 University Challenge. 7.30 Coronation Street. Champions. 9.00 A Party Political Broadcast behalf the Backwater Party. 9.10 Special Liberal Branch. 10.10 National News and What is this curious world Border Weather. 10.45 Inter- of voice production and ges- 11.40 Profes- national Soccer which blood ture, draws its Wrestling. 12.15 sional a.m. Summary from and Border News and not the vigour struggle of the real world, but Weather. by LEON TROTSKY Price: one shilling From New Park Publications, 186a, Clapham High Street, SW4 A still from the new version of 'October', showing the fraternization between Russian and German troops at the front in 1917.

THE ADDITION of a sound track, music-and, dare we.

one or two sneakingly lengthened shots of Trotsky guess, in this version of 'October'-do little to enhance the value of the film as we have known it. This stands good even if this is a visually refreshing new print.

The substance of the ghost (if I might be permitted that expression) of the Prince of Denmark in this version of Hamlet has only received more dimension. It is still, to all intents and purposes, Hamlet without the Prince.

But this does seem to point to a matter of greater interest to all those who combat Stalinism and its poisonous fruits, even in the field of culture.

Does not this exercise of the Soviet film industry indi- cate the existence of further material. the very cuts Eisenstein was forced to make in his film after its first showing to members of Stalin's entourage, viz. the references to Trotsky? I have always suspected that somewhere in the vaults of the Soviet film archives, there lies the original, uncut version of 'October'. If not, then in all probability the original cuts and deleted fragments could still be suffering a similar fate.

We also know that Eisenstein was in the habit, or

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from the rarified backwaters of drama school speech train- In The cold hand of death, of hollow forms, grips this, the living kind of most potently creative expression. Why is it that the potential of the drama, which confronts living audiences with living performers in the flesh, where the conflicts and passions of an era could be expounded pub- licly, has about as much living dynamism as an afternoon tea shop? The theatre is dead, for it is a haven for a dying class; it reflects the stagnation of that class. Last year in France, during the May-June days, the Odeon was occupied. The Odeon is possibly the bourgeois most of bourgeois theatres, but the stylized forms of empty drama were replaced living passion polemics. The building was crowded day and night. A new strength of release was found as the of possibility revolutionary change gripped the imagination of workers and students. Release

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So it will be here when the all the revolution releases latent creative energy of the working class and sweeps aside these stagnant bourgeois for- mulae, these tired old cultural forms and recharges them with a new dynamic. That is the only future for the theatre, as indeed for any form of artistic expression.

AT THE Saville Theatre is Berthold Brecht's 'The Re- sitible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Brecht was a convinced life- long communist, whose politics limited were severely the twists and turns of Stalinism the 1930s and 1950s, but who fought for a vision of a new kind of Marxist drama.

the self Against lation and narcissism of bour- geois drama, he posed a new Epic theatre, a dialect-theatre whose aim was to present and Leonard illuminate events and struggles Rossiter (above) as the Ui materialist character source in a way, to say Bertold Brecht (right) say in his not 'this merely so', but 'great political criminals must by all means 'how can it be changed?' preferably to ridicule, for they are not so For this kind of theatre he political criminals as perpetrators demanded a new kind of pre- crimes'. sentation and kind of a new acting. The actor was not to become In other words the the character he was playing, must demonstrate the charac- that SO the audience could ter; in his performance he is identify with him, but. the showing the character, by his audience should be able to voice and gesture he is pre- assess critically the character, senting him for criticism.

by the author's objective por- trayal of him. He is saying "look at this should we say, followed the practice of filing film clips of practically every shot of his films (e.g. 'Bezhin Meadow').

This could prove still another source from which the film could be reconstructed.

This latest edition of 'October' should be challenged by all socialists, trade-unionists, professional cinemato- graphers and cine enthusiasts who refuse to accept the lie.

They should insistently demand the opening of the Soviet film archives (a privilege that has already been ex- tended to the most anti-communist capitalist television companies). They must demand that Eisenstein's 'October' should be freed from the incarceration it has suffered these 42 long years! We must refuse to accept this new version of 'October' for more than what it is, a new and just as shameful distortion of the 'Ten Days that Shook the World' (which, incidentally, constituted the script for the film).

We cannot accept the Eisenstein of the Stalin era, a broken spirit and, I might add, very much a prostituted talent. Witness his disgraceful betrayal of Isaac Babel in the affair, of 'publication rights'. Isaac Babel, it must be said,

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Chigago gangster Adolf Hitler. the play notes on ist by all means be exposed, hey are not so much great of political you and man am showing any production in this country and it judge' is great tribute to Leonard Rossiter's performance that he exemplifies this method.

Tribute His Arturo Ui is a brilliant and sinister creation with all Brecht's theories have never the objectivity of an animated been realized in practice by cartoon. Eisenstein: I'd probaly die, he told a visitor soon after his film was rejected by the Stalinists.

to his undying honour preferred his new-found 'metier of silence' to turning hack to Stalin; an eternal silence, as it was to prove, in Stalin's concentration camps.

Eisenstein was broken by degrees.

"I'd probably die', he replied to a visitor who inquired about his state of fatigue soon after the rejection of his film by the Stalinists. Ie most certainly did, even if it was to prove a long drawn-out process, only to be reincarnated as a pliant if subtle servant of the bureaucracy.

'October' as much as John Reed's 'Ten Days' remains the property of the international working class.

And now is the time to agitate for its restoration to its rightful owners in its original, pristine condition.

Enough of lies and distortions, of censorship.

Everywhere, millions of workers and, in particular, their more advanced sections are searching for a pro- gramme for power. That programme can only be achieved when the mountains of lies, distortions and half-truths raised by the imperialists and their Stalinist agents have been swept away into the refuse bins of history.

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By Brian Moore This is parody writ large which is the key to the theory of 'alienation', where the actor demonstrates gesture and in- tonation | and reveals the essence of social and political man. And what is Brecht showing in this play? In tracing the rise to power of a Chicago gangster called Ui, he describes the rise to power of Hitler in Germany.

What he emphasizes is not the personal dynamism of Ui —on the contrary, he is shown as a nonentity-but the ob- jective economic forces impel- ling such a rise. In a sequence of scenes first Ui is totally rejected by the bourgeoisie as an unpleasant thug, but when the shares start falling and a financial crisis breaks, Ui's methods of pro- tection, of murder and vio- lence, are the only ones that ensure the survival of can private enterprise. It is an imaginative and clear exposition, rich in allusions and parodies. Weakness But the central weakness in from the play flows • Brecht's involvement with Stalinism.

For, although • the crisis of capitalism is grasped, the mys- tery still remains why Hitler's rise to power was not chal- lenged by the only historical force that could challenge it- the working class. To understand the defeat of the most powerfully organized working class in the world de- mands an understanding of the role of Stalinism. Brecht was incapable of con- fronting that question. Like others, man y Stalinism thwarted his political develop- ment. Consequently the only con- scious expression of the work- ing class in this play is a feeble cry: 'Will nobody help us?'.

This weakness in the play is further compounded by Michael Blakeman's produc- tion, for there seems to be a deliberate equation of the grocers in the play, who repre- sent for Brecht the individual- ism of the petty bourgeoisie, with the working class. This at once distorts the whole emphasis, for it was pre- cisely on this lower middle. class section of traders that Hitler found much of his sup- port. They were-quite separate from the working class whose unions and parties were smashed by Hitler. But the production of the play is an important event and should not be missed because the play is coming off shortly.

Organized block bookings for factories and Young Social- ists would be a good idea.

THERE is no urgency to go to the National Theatre where Peter Nicols' "The National Health' has just opened. It has all the neurosis of petty-bourgeois individualism, a hysterical catalogue of ob- sessions and hatreds, resent- ments and pessimisms, a bleak and embittered cry of con- tempt and confusion, with wit, neither originality nor technical skill. Its frustrated pretensions are admirably matched by the cynicism of the Old Vic Com- pany's style. Taxpayers' money? Towards an Independent Revolutionarv Art Culture and Socialism and a Manifesto Art and Revolution An article compiled by the author from a talk he gave to a Moscow dub nEer oy 3, 1926, other addressen! number of The Manifesto, appearing in 1938 under the signatures of André Breton and Diego Rivera was in fact drawn up in collaboration with Trotsky.

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B.S.R.-East Kilbride, Scotland

UNION LEADER SAYS BACK

RECOGNITION STRIKE

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Stalinists Greek to sign new

DOCKS ROUND-UP

THE WIDEST possible support from trade union- composer ists is now required to take the recognition strike at Workers' Press correspondent LONDON delegates, representing the 12,500 men in Moscow the port's enclosed docks-which include the mili- BSR, East Kilbride, through to success.

accepted tant Royal group—have solid. But After ten weeks the strikers remain employers for changing working pracuices "blacklegs' are still helping the company to maintain in line with Phase Two of the Devlin scheme. As we

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diktat warned on Saturday, it is time to some production, though at a quarter of the normal speed. Call a halt to breakthrough' The Company s ham in trade Plant meanwnlie believed to be still working THE ENTIRE leadership of the Czechoslovak the retreat Communist Party and government arrived in normally. militant in class- Moscow on Monday to sign what Prague Radio negotiations possible

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opponent assaull on regional leader Une trom the are NUM leader weekend meeting between top representatives of both aris, has been Party. rom li Czech detention orranzalots. 1ne spokesinlal I now separate and 'agreement', im- An employers' represent- By John Spencer sala. John posed ative stressed after now document nore become more the talks had cotheirces significance whateve the expected, 10,500 men. exploitation and attack wages while a CBI statement went plant after a similar dispere.

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dustmen Birmingham tenants 10 9 motor workers' have Productivity policies in Colleges and Departments fight slum rent rise conterence low Plan additio Digbeth Civic Hall, Tough Digbeth Communists ned, so lon Birmingham

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achers and as said sane ind it 1s m Triumph omiehis, We for the oldick Paper. Tear gas in Nigerian bank strike patien is too unto soard Engineering house By a foreign correspondent policy dustmen's NIGERIAN police were taiks the soveet leaders Mondays loses in LaBos on fur cor attacks weakene Edin han Housing Commite a border improved service Poised bye set, London, that only Wack Paperd burgh workers